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  2. Blest Christ Mass

    Tts 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

    Tts 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

    s 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

    Isaiah 7:14
    Isaiah 9:2
    Isaiah 6-7
    Isaiah 60:1-3
    Micah 5:2-4
    Matthew 1:20-24
    Luke 2:8-14
    Matthew 2:1-6
    John 1:43
    Acts 13:47
    Luke 3:5-6
    Hebrew 11:13-14
    Hebrew 11:39-40
    John 1:1-5
    John 1:9-14
    John 1:15-16
    John 3:16-21
    Romans 10:20-21
    Titus 2:11-14
    Titus 3:3-6

    • Christ Mass was celebrated just once. Now we celebrate Communion of the Fellowship Rememberance.

      Acts 20:6–7

      Be Blest in this purely Holy Spiritual Celebration of Christ’s Victory given in remission of our sins for once and all time to those who believe and in Him and follow His word. The Lord’s Supper.

      Blest be everyday! As we grow in grace according to God’s will for us.

      Praying: Thank you Father for the gift of Your Son. In Jesus Y’shuah’s Holy Name.

      Amen.

  3. Merry Christmas back to you! This site is such a blessing to so many. Thank you for all your hard work! And nice ecard, just wish your faces were a little bigger so we could see you all better! May the Lord Jesus bless you with His presence in un-imaginable ways this Christmas!

  4. Merry Christmas and GOD Bless you all for all the hard work you do for all of us!!!!!This Webb site is awsome!!!!!

  5. Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication, the Matthew Henry commentary is such a blessing, my wish for you is to have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS, GOD BLESS, because of your Love, for the LORD.

  6. Dear BLB staff,

    Thank you for making this excellent site availble. I pray God bless you and your families richly for pouring your efforts into powerfully sharing the Gospel through this site!

    Merry Christmas
    Charlie

  7. Merry Christmas BLB. Thanks for everything. Your website is my homepage where I start everyday with God’s word and devotional time. Be blessed my brothers and sisters.
    Yours in Christ,
    Tim

  8. May you be richly blessed this Christmas and throughout the coming year as we await the completion of the promise of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ!
    Thank you for this awesome site….it’s where I start each morning.
    Your sister in our Lord,
    Bette Jo

  9. May you each enjoy a beautiful, meaningful Christmas celebration! BLB is also MY go-to site for devotions and for study. My fave is Pastor Chuck Smith’s C2000 commentary. I’m so grateful for you all – the Lord bless you for all that you do to bring His Word to the world!

  10. What a beautiful Christmas card! And Merry Christmas to you at BLB.
    I WILL pray for your ministry.

    • Oh my LORD JESUS we so need your help

      Where O LORD did you command us not to do the works you came to teach us to do

      Matthew 9:38 Pray ye therefore the LORD of the harvest that HE will send laborers into HIS harvest

      1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine CONTINUE in them for in DOING this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear you

      Psalm 33:4 For the word of the LORD is right and all HIS works are done in truth

      Where O LORD did you teach us to use our own understanding and our own minds to teach your ways and your truth HELP US LORD

      Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with ALL THINE HEART and lean not unto thine own understanding

      Psalm 119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding therefore I hate every false way

      Where O LORD did you say we could ignore your words and testimonies and be saved

      Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because their is no light in them

      John 5:34 But I receive not testimony from man but these things I say that you might be saved

      1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we GOD without ceasing because when you received the word of GOD which you heard of us you received it not as the word of men but as it is in truth the word of GOD which effectually worketh also in you that believe

      Where O LORD have you taught us that we could form a doctrine to live that is only a small percentage of what you taught and then distort even that

      1 Timothy 6:3&4 If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words even the words of our LORD JESUS CHRIST and to the doctrine which is according to godliness (4) He is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railings evil surmisings

      2 Corinthians 4:1&2 Therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy we faint not (2)
      But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of GOD deceitfully but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every mans conscience in the sight of GOD

      Matthew 4:4 But HE answered and said it is written MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD

      Where O LORD did you say that man was our sufficiency

      2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of ourselves but our sufficiency is of GOD

      Isaiah 2:22 Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of

      Acts 20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them

      James 2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD AND IT WAS IMPUTED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS and he was called the friend of GOD

      John 15:14 You are my friends IF YOU DO WHATSOEVER I command you

      Genesis 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge my commandments my statutes and my laws

      My heart cries out to you LORD JESUS that we would not be conformed to this world but that we be a people set apart to do the good works you have called us to do

      James 2:24 You see then how that by works a man is justified and not by faith only

      2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people even as there be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the LORD that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction

      Titus 1:16 They profess to know GOD but in works they deny HIM being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate

      LORD GOD help us to remember we have put off the old for the new

      Ephesians 4:22 That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts (23) and be renewed in the spirit of your mind (24) and that you put on the new man which after GOD is created in righteousness and true holiness

      Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of CHRIST that whether I come and see you or else be absent I may hear of your affairs that you stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel

      Colossians 3:9&10 Lie not one to another seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds (10) and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of HIM that created HIM

      Father we come to you in prayer asking that you cleanse our hearts our souls our minds and our bodies that we would be made pure for you and we ask in the name of your SON JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOUR

      Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this the seed is the word of GOD

      Luke 8:14 And that which fell among the thorns are they which when they have heard go forth and choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to perfection

      2 Timothy 4:3&4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears (4) and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables

  12. Hello Brethren,
    Another Christmas is here and we Christians are closer to the raptures of the church and the coming of our beloved bridegroom Jesus.
    I would like to say thank you to my extended family at BLB for their ministry to us all. Thank YOU!
    I find it amazing that there are over 300 prophecies about Jesus Christ. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, Yahweh is his name, is so very incredible, loving, merciful and gracious to give us His words and the understanding of the future. Thank you Father in Jesus name Amen.
    Now what are the odds that one can foretell the future once? One in million, one in a billion, a trillion, quadrillion? I’d venture to say impossible but we all know that with God all things are possible (Mat 19:26 and Mar 10:27).
    For fun with numbers let’s just say the chances of foretelling the future (“not predicting” because our God knows the end from the beginning Isa 46:10) are one in three (1/3). I know it is a small number but when we look at the 300 plus prophecies of Jesus Christ this number will be so big that the words, million, billion and trillion will seem small in comparison. How so Andybob?
    Here is a list of just ten prophecies the subject they cover, their Old Testament Scripture and their New Testament fulfillment:
    Subject OT Scripture NT Fulfillment
    As the Son of God Ps 2:7 Lu 1:32, 35
    As the seed of the woman Gen 3:15 Gal 4:4
    As the seed of Abraham Gen 17:7 Gal 3:16
    As the seed of Isaac Gen 21:12 Heb 11:17-19
    As the seed of David Ps 132:11 Acts 13:23
    His being born of a virgin Isa 7:14 Mat 1:22-23
    His being called Immanuel Isa 7:14 Mat 1:22-23
    His being born in Bethlehem of Judea Mic 5:2 Luk 2:4-6
    The slaying of the children of Bethlehem Jer 31:15 Mat 2:16-18
    His being called out of Egypt Hos 11:1 Mat 2:15

    Now let’s start the multiplying. 1/3*1/3*1/3*1/3*… okay you get the picture.. it is 1/310 , or 1/3 to the 10th power. This comes out to 1/1,531,578,985,264,449 or one in one onethousands billions of a chance. Now we have only did 10 prophecies and there are over 300 of them. So we see even by using a ultra conservative number of one in three (1/3) chances of prophesying the things and events about Jesus Christ we would have a number that is so big it is inconceivable much like our heavenly Father, Yahweh, is.
    I am thankful to our God and to Jesus for their mercy, grace, compassion and longsuffering for us.
    The birth of Jesus is a critical step in God’s plan of salvation for mankind and I for one LOVE our Father for creating Jesus.
    God Bless you and a Happy new year to you!
    Brother Andybob

    • Correction; the word RAPTURE does not appear in the Bible.
      Jesus said he would only speak in PARABLES and to watch out for Anti Christ and also LYING aposltes.

      It seems most folks want to qUote Paul and the boys and really truly ignores the teaching of JESUS.

      Mat 13:34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables
      and without a parable
      spake he not unto them

      Jesus only spok in a parable 31 times and this is what he said the last time he spoke in a parable.

      John 10-6
      This parable spake Jesus unto them but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

      Jesus never mentioned a rapture and said little to nothing about temples and speaking in tongues and raptures….

      The book ends with the following

      To anyone who alters the truth in this book shall the pagues thereof consume him.

      The book is brutal and so was Jesus in his fight to overcome SATAN who has a SEAT in the CHURCH.

      I prefer the parables of JESUS which goes back and corrects everything from Creation to the preenmt, present, after all SATAN who has a seat in the CHURCH was their from the BEGINNING.

      For this purpose was the son of man created
      TO DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL

      solve the riddle